Making Enabling Assistance Available to People in Need

The Apex Foundation is the private, nonprofit foundation of Apex CoVantage whose goal is to support intervention programs that assist and inspire people to achieve self-sufficiency. The Foundation makes grants to non-government organizations (NGO's) providing social assistance to people challenged by poverty, disability, or discrimination and supports relief agencies that serve people affected by emergencies and natural disasters.

The Apex Foundation Work Group, comprised of Apex CoVantage employees, has traveled across the globe to help people in need. In India, they helped to refurbish orphanages, schools and playgrounds. In Mexico, they built houses for Habitat for Humanity. By donating their time and energy they get back something much more important – the knowledge that they have helped to make the world community a better place in which to live.

Collectively, they have made major contributions to disaster relief in places both far and near to their homes, from the mountains of Iran to the shores of the Indian Ocean. And, supported by the Apex Foundation, they have made significant and lasting change in the lives of others, especially homeless and orphaned children, children with disabilities, and destitute seniors.

The supported organizations of the Apex Foundation have many things in common. They are all exemplary in the spirit and dedication of their founders, leaders, and staff. They each focus on helping individuals to help themselves, and they share a common belief in building the skills and attitudes necessary for self reliance in those to whom they provide relief.

A Partial List of Supported Organizations

	The Academy for Severe Handicaps and Autism (ASHA) is a residential program for autistic children founded and run by a remarkable young woman, Jayashree Ramesh, who is trained in learning disabilities and whose family donated the house in Bangalore.
	The Association of People with Disability (APD) provides education, training, and medical services to children and adults with disabilities, with the aim of equipping them to become successful in mainstream society. APD's founder, Hema, is an amazing woman with disability whose force of personal example inspires, guides, and challenges other people with disability to achieve self-sufficiency.
	Bapuji Children's & Old Age Home provides a home to destitute, abandoned infants in India. In an interesting innovation, some care for the children is provided by another group of beneficiaries -- abused and abandoned older women. This unusual organization grew out of an act of personal kindness by an American woman living in India.
	Khmer Charity provides the children of war-torn Cambodia with an array of educational services, including, libraries, an audio/visual laboratory, e-mail capability, and English as a second language programs.
	Opportunities, Alternatives and Resources (OAR) of Fairfax County, Virginia, near Washington, DC, was originally called Offender Aid and Restoration by founder Jay Worrall in 1971. Today, this unique organization led by Executive Director Derwin Overton focuses the energies of its 150 volunteers and 20 professional staff on helping offenders in the County criminal justice system and their families cope with extraordinary life situations and successfully integrate back into society.